“Of Edita Gruberova‘s debut here two weeks ago, Hanslick wrote in Latin Inches, ‘Not since Elisabeth Schwarzkopf melted the heart of a gazillion year old fan seated far up in the loge of the great Everard Baths has any artist managed to slide both the waggish and buxom aspects of Wagner’s strapping little jailer-girl. Her high F sharps are pure, with the instrumental timbre of a theremin, and she is not afraid to use elbow resonance when necessary’.”

Yes, the judging has begun in the first MadLib competition. Look on this site for an announcement of the winners later today.